Flying scrolling shoot ’em up games is the focus of Episode 135.  Jams.  Straight up jams.  Twinbee 3.  Can’t beat it.  The best.  This whole episode is jammed out though.  Full track listing below.

Game – Composer – Song – Company – Console – Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated)

Magical Chase – Hitoshi Sakimoto, Masaharu Iwata – Stage 1 – Quest/NEC – TurboGrafx-16 – 1993

Lightening Force – Toshiharu Yamanishi – Don’t Go Off (Course Select) – Technosoft – Genesis – 1992

Kingyo Chuuihou! Tobidase! Game Gakuen – Yasuyuki Suzuki – Shoot ’em Up – Jaleco – Super Famicom – 1994

Vortex – Justin Scharvona – Training – Argonaut Games/Electro Brain – SNES – 1994

Phalanx – S. Yamaguchi – Under Water – Kemco – SNES – 1992

Gaiares – Shinobu Ogawa – Mission 2 – Telenet Japan – Genesis – 1990

GG Aleste II: Lance Bird – Imami Pon, BA.M – Weapon Select – Compile/Sega – Game Gear (Japan) – 1993

Thunder Blade – Koichi Namiki (Pretty K.N) – Thunder Blade (BMG1) – Sega – arcade – 1987

TwinBee 3: Poko Poko Dai Maou – Atsushi Fujio (Sukenomiya), Hidehiro Funauchi (FK-King), Katsuhiko Suzuki (Flamingo) – Evening Glow of T3 (Ending) – Konami – Famicom – 1989

Fire Shark – Masahiro Yuge – Vice in Tokyo – Toaplan/DreamWorks – Genesis – 1990

Galaxy Force II – Katsuhiro Hayashi – Beyond The Galaxy (Scene A) – Sega – arcade – 1988

Air Diver – Y.W, Ondai Yuri – Australia – Seismic/Copya Systems – Genesis – 1990

Detana!! TwinBee – Hidenori Maezawa, Michiru Yamane, Masae Nakashima, Kiyoshi Murai (arr.), Mikio Saito (Metal Yuhki) (arr.) – Crossing the Sea of Clouds (Stage 2) – Konami – PC Engine – 1992

D-Force – unknown – Desert – Asmik/ISCO – SNES – 1991

Gyruss – Atsushi Fujio, Yuichi Sakakura, Harumi Ueko – Stage 2 – Ultra Games – NES – 1989